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Horse Health
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Don't Let Summer Parasites Make Your Horse's Life Miserable
Whatever your climate, wherever your horse resides - stall, pasture or dry lot - many parasites thrive during the summer months.
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Say "NO" to Keto for Your Horse
No body cell or tissue type in the horse's body prefers ketones over glucose since glucose is essential for life.
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Prevent Heat Stroke in Horses as Summer Temperatures Increase
If your horse shows signs of heat stroke, immediately move the horse to a cooler, shady area, and call the veterinarian.
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Equine Health Alerts Issued by CDFA Animal Health and Food Safety Services
Equine Herpes Virus infection in horses can cause respiratory disease, abortion in mares, neonatal foal death and neurological disease.
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Why Understanding Horses' Gut Microbiome Is Important for Horse Owners
Equines are unable to produce the chemicals and enzymes needed to break down fibrous plant cells and have formed a partnership with microscopic inhabitants of their gut for digestive purposes.
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AAEP Publishes Leptospirosis Guidelines
Leptospirosis is a sporadic but important disease of equids caused by spiral-shaped bacteria carried by wild life with the potential for substantial impact on breeding farms and horses residing in endemic regions.
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U of G Study May Help Pinpoint Lyme Disease Hot Spots
Lyme Disease is the most reported vector-borne disease in the United States and is Canada's most common tick-borne illness in horses and humans.
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Horizon Structures Series Presents: Beat The Heat Strategies In Horse Barn Design
As with all things health wise, prevention is better than cure, so when designing your horse barn it's smart to add features to mitigate effects of high temperatures and humid days.
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The Role of the Horse's Hind Gut in Laminitis
When laminitis occurs without the horse being seriously ill, and with no over consumption of grain, there is at least a 90% chance the cause is high insulin.
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Why "Bute" Doesn't Work with Endocrine-Related Laminitis
Laminitis caused by high insulin is different from other types, so if you approach endocrinopathic laminitis with the goal of controlling the cause - insulin - results are good.